World Gasoline Engine

The World Gasoline Engine is a family of straight four piston engines built in 1.8, 2.0 and 2.4 litre sizes, based on the Global Engine Alliance design. Hyundai handled the initial design of the block and cylinder head within that alliance, and the engines were built by the Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance from 2007, with Chrysler producing them from 2012. They have an aluminium block with siamesed cast iron cylinder liners that allow the bore, and so the displacement, to change just by fitting a different set of liners, and an aluminium head with double overhead camshafts and variable valve timing. The 1.8 and 2.0 litre engines powered the Dodge Caliber, Jeep Compass and Jeep Patriot, and the 2.4 litre engine, including a 285 horsepower turbocharged version in the Caliber SRT4, powered the Caliber, Journey, Avenger and Chrysler 200. The later Tigershark engines are its next generation.